Studies of Acute Respiratory Illnesses Caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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Abstract
THE introduction of tissue-culture technology into the field of viral infections has permitted rapid progress, in the past decade, in the etiologic definition of the acute respiratory illnesses of man. Specific etiologic designation, in turn, allows precise definition of the spectrum of clinical disease resulting from infection with a particular virus.The respiratory syncytial virus, initially designated chimpanzee-coryza agent (CCA), was first recovered by Morris et al.1 from chimpanzees with respiratory illness and from a laboratory worker. The virus was recovered later by Chanock and his associates2 , 3 from infants with lower-respiratory-tract disease and from "controls." Rowe and Michaels4 isolated the . . .